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The most comprehensive index to journal articles, books, chapters in books and dissertations in modern literature and language study. Most of the citations do not lead to full-text articles directly. The MLA Bibliography started publication in 1921 with online indexing from 1926 to present. Earlier (pre-1963) print volumes can be found in Lockwood's reference collection, under the call number Z7006 .M64.
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For all language and linguistics research (including linguistically oriented criticism and analysis of literary authors and their works) this database provides excellent coverage leading primarily to journal articles, but also to some books, technical reports, and dissertations. The citations do not lead to full-text articles directly. Consult the online catalog or a librarian for assistance. 1973 to present.
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This database covers a broader field (all arts and humanities), with an emphasis on 'who cited whom.' Covering the years from 1975 to the present, its references, drawn from cited articles, provide access to many resources that are not available through other online indexes, including older materials, unpublished manuscripts, archives, etc.
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A collection of full-text French writings ranging from novels and poetry to biology and mathematics. It is designed to be used for advanced linguistic and literary analysis of French texts. Also included are Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopedie as well as a reference collection.
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Created in 2005 by the CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research), the CNRTL federates within a single portal, a set of French language linguistic resources and tools for computerized language processing.
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Contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 400 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world about Central and South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, the border between the United States and Mexico, and Hispanics in the United States. Subject coverage includes politics, public administration, social movements, archaeology, literature, economics, drama, and gender studies.
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JSTOR (Journal STORage) presents the full text, in facsimile form, of the complete back files of important scholarly journals, generally from the first volume through issues published prior to the most recent three years. Current issues are not available in JSTOR.
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E-journals Collections

A website for scientific journals in social and human sciences, established by the Ministry of State Education, Higher Education and Research. Launched on the initiative of the research community, who are keen for their scientific output to have greater visibility, the PERSEE website has as its mission the digitisation and online distribution of back collections of a vast corpus of periodicals.